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Killing the Koala and Poisoning the Prairie Australia, America, and the Environment

Name: Killing the Koala and Poisoning the Prairie
Author: Corey J. A. Bradshaw

Auteur: Corey J. A. Bradshaw

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Corey J. A. Bradshaw Corey J. A. Bradshaw

Engels
Paperback
9780226316987
13 oktober 2015
235 pagina's

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Though separated by thousands of miles, the United States and Australia have much in common. Geographically both countries are expansive-the United States is the fourth largest in land mass and Australia the sixth-and both possess a vast amount of natural biodiversity. At the same time, both nations are on a crash course toward environmental destruction. Highly developed super consumers with enormous energy footprints and high rates of greenhouse-gas emissions, they are two of the biggest drivers of climate change per capita. As renowned ecologists Corey J. A. Bradshaw and Paul R. Ehrlich make clear in Killing the Koala and Poisoning the Prairie, both of these countries must confront the urgent question of how to stem this devastation and turn back from the brink. In this book, Bradshaw and Ehrlich provide a spirited exploration of the ways in which the United States and Australia can learn from their shared problems and combine their most successful solutions in order to find and develop new resources, lower energy consumption and waste, and grapple with the dynamic effects of climate change. Peppering the book with humor, irreverence, and extensive scientific knowledge, the authors examine how residents of both countries have irrevocably altered their natural environments, detailing the most pressing ecological issues of our time, including the continuing resource depletion caused by overpopulation. They then turn their discussion to the politics behind the failures of environmental policies in both nations and offer a blueprint for what must be dramatically changed to prevent worsening the environmental crisis. Although focused on two nations, Killing the Koala and Poisoning the Prairie clearly has global implications-the problems facing the United States and Australia are not theirs alone, and the solutions to come will benefit by being crafted in coalition. This book provides a vital opportunity to learn from both countries' leading environmental thinkers and to heed their call for a way forward together.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 13 oktober 2015
Aantal pagina's: 235
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Hoofdauteur: Corey J. A. Bradshaw
Tweede Auteur: Corey J. A. Bradshaw
Hoofduitgeverij: University Of Chicago Press

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Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 152 mm
Product hoogte: 13 mm
Product lengte: 229 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 15 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 2 mm
Verpakking lengte: 23 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 354 g

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EAN: 9780226316987

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